Resilience and marginalized youth: making a case for personal and collective meaning-making as part of resilience research in public health

Lisa Marin WexlerDepartment of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, 313 Arnold House, Amherst, MA 01003 9304, United StatesSoc Sci Med 69:565-70. 2009

..Specifically, group affiliation can provide a context to reconceptualize personal difficulty as a politicized collective struggle, and through this reading, can create a platform for ideological commitment and resistance...

Identifying colonial discourses in Inupiat young people's narratives as a way to understand the no future of Inupiat youth suicide

Lisa WexlerDepartment of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 9304, USAAm Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 16:1-24. 2009

..Inupiat youth narratives will illustrate these connections and, in so doing, offer new ways to understand youth suicide in Native communities...

..These opportunities allowed youth to gain a sense of competence and mastery. When difficult experiences align with opportunities for being responsible and competent, youth are most likely to exhibit resilience. ..

Promoting positive youth development and highlighting reasons for living in Northwest Alaska through digital storytelling

..The project and the qualitative data demonstrate the need for further studies focusing on outcomes related to suicide prevention...

Advancing suicide prevention research with rural american Indian and alaska native populations

Lisa WexlerLisa Wexler is with the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Michael Chandler is with the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Joseph P Gone is with the Departments of Psychology and American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mary Cwik is with the Division of Social and Behavioral Interventions, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD Laurence J Kirmayer is with the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Teresa LaFromboise is with the Stanford Graduate School of Education, CA Teresa Brockie is with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Nursing Research and Translational Science, Bethesda, MD Victoria O Keefe Seminole Cherokee, is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater John Walkup is with the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY James Allen is with the Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth CampusAm J Public Health 105:891-9. 2015

..These proposed directions expand the alliance's prioritized research agenda and offer pathways to advance the field of suicide research in Indigenous communities and beyond. ..

An analysis of hospital visits during the 12 months preceding suicide death in Northern Alaska

..75 times as likely to have any contact with medical staff, they were 3.29 times as likely to be treated for an injury, and were 22.18 times as likely to be treated for an alcohol-related event than were the matched controls...